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  1. difflock
    Senior Management avows nobody make coffee like me. (This may of course be a cunning Ploy, as I get outta bed at about 06:05 to make it!) Anyway bought a "Ranchillo" expresso machine and matching grinder after using a few cheapo expresso machines to death. Mostly whatever No5 is on offer, generally in Sainsburys. A triple (& perhaps quadruple?) expresso into a large mug of hot milk.= breakfast. The stuff from any franchise is pure dross in comparision. m
  2. difflock
    On the tee shirt front "While your here. . ." And on the back "Will cost you dear"
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    No! (i) Bigger, therefore much more cumbersome. (ii) Heavier, therefore more likely to (a) get bogged and (b) more difficult to extricate. (iii) On bald tyres = useless in the Moss.(though there is another school of thought on that issue) cheers PS Wot I really need is a 6-8 tonne excavator on long reasonably wide steel tracks. With grapple etc (and to double up as a recovery aid) Plus a 10 tonne front mounted hydraulic recover winch on the crawler. Plus explosive couplings for the ends of the link arms so as I can "blow" and discard that horrorendously effective brake otherwise known as a forestry winch. cheers m
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    Paul, no worries, I went through my "O" Levels in 1974, just after Metrication was introduced (1973 was it?) So can easily work in both. Graham, A proper "steal" you got there, I ud work 2 long days for a deal like thatun. cheers M
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    Quite simple to work out, assuming average older tractor (the sort likely to be driving a log splitter is (and to be generous) 2240 & (a cunning plan awaits) psi hyd pressure. A 3" dia ram = Pi*D*D/4 = 3.142*3*3/4=about 28/4= 7sq"*2240psi/2240(lbs in a ton)=7 ton thrust. 4" will give 3.142*4*4/4=3.142*4= about 12.5 tons of thrust. 5"= about 20 tons. Obviously PTO driven hyd pump splitters could be running at higher pressures. but I doubt the micky mouse petrol engined hyd pumps ar running abane 2500psi. cheers m
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    Seeee, Started 07:30, lunch at 12:00, Took trailer up put a 1/2 load by about 13:30 Went to bring out more, decided to doze a wheen o branches off the landing. OOPS. Back for tow strops an odds and ends. Recovered by 18:30, after finally switching the winch to the Ould DB. Only need single line pull on about a 1/2 drum. Strangled the tractor stone dead on the first attempt, only about 1250rpm. A few more reves an bobs yer bent Uncle. Cost me a drop arm with the initial sideways winch. PS Well seeing the wee crawler is a "Mountain" varient. No lack of oil pressure even at that somewhat extreme angle. I did think to check!!
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    Guessing the one in the photo is about 10 tonne. Unless sommat like 5,000psi-6,000psi hydraulics. And a frame constructed from unobtainium. google 30 tonne log splitter(from a reputable manufacturer) to understand my doubts. regards, marcus
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    Was there any suspision/allegation of "poaching" perhaps? All seems very very odd.
  9. difflock
    Why were the Police involved?
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    Sounds to be more to this incident. (i) How was the Deer injured. (ii) How was it "humanely" dispatched. (iii) Who "took offence" regards, Marcus
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    Starting from first principles; (i) What HP is the rather small looking petrol engine. (ii) Since power is work done over time, with a 3 second cycle time, there cannot be too much work being done. btw, I understand the appeal of a flywheel "storing" energy. but needs to be large dia for this to work. And, not actually having seen one , I`simply cannot see how "clutching" a spur gear into a rack, or visa-versa, can be good engineering.. There has to be a better way, not as simplistic, or as cheap, but better engineered.
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    (i) 34 tonne? (ii) A flawed design. The rack will inevetibly (and I imagine quite quickly) get worn or chewed by the spur gear. Or visa-versa.
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    Today is in Northern Ireland. Simply stupendous. Cheers M
  14. difflock
    grew up!
  15. difflock
    I ud have suggested 500,000 easy, assuming routine maintenance and servicing carried out. Hard to beat lifting the bonnet on at least a weekly basis, if not daily.
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    600 Hrs, by how many persons? ps I ud like a wee figure for the cost o the "bits" used. m
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    A chepo Stihl/Morso branded one then Steve, about £12 or £15.00. I think this type/spec available from the same firm. regards, M
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    pinged you a pm Steve
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    The meter is specifically for the timber trade. It is set to read %age moisture at a notional ambient temperature of 20 deg. For each 10 deg colder add 1% to the reading. for each 10 deg above 20 deduct 1% moisture. So I reckoned on 10 deg C ambient temp (early on) this morning and added 1%. however, plug in the supplied temp probe and stick in a hole made with a 3mm nail. then use either the hand held wanderlead moisture probe (if in an akward place) or use the probes on the top of the instrument itself. And it will calculate much more accurately with an in-built alogrythm. cheers m
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    See CEM Timber Moisture Meter with Remote Probe - CEM from Digital Meters UK Turned up in the Post this morning. Nicely packaged in a pouch, batteries inserted an all. So out to my woodpile All logs nominally 15%, checked end grain(both ends) , after splitting, from the middle of the billet bundle. Corrected for temp too. Ditto from the vintage stuff in the shed, 15 % (corrected for temp) Which makes sense after our few weeks of unseasonal dry weather with strong sunshine. Am a happy bunny. Into the house, logs beside the Morso in the South facing living room Nominally 10% (corrected for temp) some read as low as 8.5 before temp correction. W Well pleases with my new toy:thumbup::thumbup:
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    Steve, I can see why for knocking out 3"by2" battens a "flip" saw would be more suitable. Presumably less nonsense with changing bands/blades as well, esp with a tugnsten tipped circular blade. Now What model/spec/condition is your potentially for sale woodmizer? Cos, like I could always buy a suitable 3PH Generator from some bloke on the intersnot If the price were right? Regards, Marcus
  22. difflock
    Sufficient seating for 6No. LibDems that is.
  23. difflock
    :confused1::confused1: Whyever would anyone take a monstrous 180tonne excavator (& presumably on very narrow rock-quarry tracks) off the absolutly certifibly rocky "hard". As Steven used to say "does not compute, does not compute":lol: no photos btw?
  24. difflock
    One currently on ebay with a deliberatly high "buy it now" price of £12,000.00, subject to negeotation. see: Peterson Portable Sawmill - 8" 24hp Swingmill - Winch Production Frame (WPF) | eBay Sounds genuine enough, no idea what its worth though.
  25. difflock
    Tsk, tsk Agrimog A young-un like mesel ud need that in millimeters. so, to pick a lower end and easily divisible figure, say 0.0160" *25.4mm = 1.60/4= 0.4mm of a rise in the middle, should mean if the straight edge is pressed firmly down on one side of the crown, light should be discernable coming through the nom. 1.0mm gap on the other side. Anyways the straight edge could definately be made to roll/rock over the crown. If there was one. thanks, Marcus

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